have you made sure its on the latest bios? some boards need the latest bios to boot
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1366 X58 Xeon 5650
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have you made sure its on the latest bios? some boards need the latest bios to boot
Hmm I didn't know that, where could I find witch one is the lattest one?
Latest looks to be 2209
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P6T_Deluxe/HelpDesk_Download/
you can check yours with CPUZ
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P6T_Deluxe/HelpDesk_Download/
you can check yours with CPUZ
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
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I was in the same position 2 weeks ago, popped my x5660 in my P6t Deluxe, and It didn't post, bought a 920 posted and the bios read it was on quite an old bios.
So a Bios update should sort you out, someone above has posted the bios you need, if yours is the V1.
Likewise. My board (Asus P6X58D-E) and the BIOS it was currently running with my 920 was listed as compatible with Xeon CPU's and although it did indeed boot ok with the Xeon fitted, it steadfastly refused to overclock to any degree at all after I changed the BIOS settings. I flashed it to the latest BIOS and *BOOM* - a solid 4.2Ghz with a few tweaks. 
I have never update bios, any easy way to do it so i dont brick my motherboard.
I think i have heard about these programs that do it. Any good ?
Edit: ok quick google, it shouldnt be that hard, just need to get hands on some flashdrive and FAT format it.
I think i have heard about these programs that do it. Any good ?
Edit: ok quick google, it shouldnt be that hard, just need to get hands on some flashdrive and FAT format it.
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I have never update bios, any easy way to do it so i dont brick my motherboard.
I think i have heard about these programs that do it. Any good ?
Edit: ok quick google, it shouldnt be that hard, just need to get hands on some flashdrive and FAT format it.
Asus P6T easy to flash bios mate
EZ flash from within bios from USB
Looking back through the thread, these were my settings on a P6T
CPU 5670 @ 4.4GHz
Multiplier - 22x
BCLK - 200
DRAM - DDR3-1203 (my RAM is only 1333)
UCLK - 2406
CPU Voltage - 1.35 (had to up it)
CPU PLL Voltage - 1.96
QPI\DRAM Core Voltage - 1.36250
DRAM Bus Voltage - 1.6
Set your multiplier to 20x with it being a 5650. You probably wont need 1.35 on the CPU but you can start there and drop it down gradually until it becomes unstable and then notch it back up again slightly.
Hey grew impatient and clocked it going number by number of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZadS1WdsMYE
Just wanted some pros to confirm it's all good.
Runs ok, stress tested with prime95 (though for like 10 minutes) will do a proper one overnight.
Might try your's at some point as it's higher clock, though my temps at stress test went high as 87c
Hi
I swapped out my i7 950 @ 4ghz for a X5650 and like Kurgen above after many hours of faffing about my i7 is back in.
The X5650 does run super cool under 30 degrees at idle and under 50 at load which is damn impressive, but on my Gigabyte X58A UDR3 motherboard it would not post or even boot into windows at anything but stock settings.
When attempting any overclock it would just cycle through the BIOS boot process and would eventually returning to show the default chip settings at the BIOS boot up screen.
The m/b did not like anything but the standard BCLK of 133 and increasing to just 150 it wouldn't boot past BIOS without it restoring default CPU settings, even with increased vcore, QDI/VTT.
Even taking my existing i7 settings and bringing multiply down to 20 and BCLK to 133 to boot the Xeon @ 2.66ghz resulted in BIOS keep rebooting and having to manually load optimised defaults to then boot properly.
Oh well I tried and failed, maybe these Xeon/Gigabyte combs just suck (together with my OCing skills).
Diddyman
PS: I was runing latest FH BIOS
I swapped out my i7 950 @ 4ghz for a X5650 and like Kurgen above after many hours of faffing about my i7 is back in.
The X5650 does run super cool under 30 degrees at idle and under 50 at load which is damn impressive, but on my Gigabyte X58A UDR3 motherboard it would not post or even boot into windows at anything but stock settings.
When attempting any overclock it would just cycle through the BIOS boot process and would eventually returning to show the default chip settings at the BIOS boot up screen.
The m/b did not like anything but the standard BCLK of 133 and increasing to just 150 it wouldn't boot past BIOS without it restoring default CPU settings, even with increased vcore, QDI/VTT.
Even taking my existing i7 settings and bringing multiply down to 20 and BCLK to 133 to boot the Xeon @ 2.66ghz resulted in BIOS keep rebooting and having to manually load optimised defaults to then boot properly.
Oh well I tried and failed, maybe these Xeon/Gigabyte combs just suck (together with my OCing skills).
Diddyman
PS: I was runing latest FH BIOS
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Seeing a lot of posts about people not being able to boot when overclocking it. Mine was exactly the same, and I went through everything I could think of. Endless amounts of Google-fu pulled up a post from the corner of the internet from a guy saying manually setting the ram timings fixed the issue for him.
Low and behold, setting the ram timings that were on the packaging fixed the issue and I was free to put whatever settings I want. The board is a bit naff and won't allow anything over 3.8GHz but you guys having issues with it should try the same and see if it brings you any joy.
Low and behold, setting the ram timings that were on the packaging fixed the issue and I was free to put whatever settings I want. The board is a bit naff and won't allow anything over 3.8GHz but you guys having issues with it should try the same and see if it brings you any joy.
Hi AiiR
I did set the RAM to the same timings it has always run at manually, at the slacker timings for the XMP1600mhz speed (9,9,9,24,2) used in the original i7 overclock, even though it was nowhere near that speed with the much lower BCLK had no luck, the BIOS just kept doing the same....black screen, fans on/off and BIOS recycled and eventually Xeon dafault clock settings apear in screen.
Thanks for the post anyway, I expect this pushes me to new m/b, cpu, RAM combo for the next upgrade instead.
Diddy
I did set the RAM to the same timings it has always run at manually, at the slacker timings for the XMP1600mhz speed (9,9,9,24,2) used in the original i7 overclock, even though it was nowhere near that speed with the much lower BCLK had no luck, the BIOS just kept doing the same....black screen, fans on/off and BIOS recycled and eventually Xeon dafault clock settings apear in screen.
Thanks for the post anyway, I expect this pushes me to new m/b, cpu, RAM combo for the next upgrade instead.
Diddy
Hi Rollo
The QPI Link Speed I did fiddle with, at stock settings it was "Auto" being x48, I did set it manually to x48 and also x36 instead. Options were x36, x44, x48 and 87mhz.
I might have a final shot at weekend and give it one last try.
Tks
Diddy
PS: The QPI is 6.4ghz on the Xeon at standard clock, and looking at videos online when overclocking on other m/b they have a 4.8ghz option they reduce it to, set multiplyer to x20 and straight in at 200 BCLK immediately, on the Gigabyte board there appears to to no set option, just the x36, x44, x48 and 87mhz, and at x36 at 200 BCLK thats going to be 7.2ghz
The QPI Link Speed I did fiddle with, at stock settings it was "Auto" being x48, I did set it manually to x48 and also x36 instead. Options were x36, x44, x48 and 87mhz.
I might have a final shot at weekend and give it one last try.
Tks
Diddy
PS: The QPI is 6.4ghz on the Xeon at standard clock, and looking at videos online when overclocking on other m/b they have a 4.8ghz option they reduce it to, set multiplyer to x20 and straight in at 200 BCLK immediately, on the Gigabyte board there appears to to no set option, just the x36, x44, x48 and 87mhz, and at x36 at 200 BCLK thats going to be 7.2ghz
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So I was thinking, since the X58 platform has the memory controller in the CPU itself would that mean that ECC memory could be used?
I have a gen 1 gigabyte ud5 (oldest version) and a x5660, is it possible that ECC would actually work? if so it would be great as its cheap as chips on the bay.
Anyone had experience with this?
I have a gen 1 gigabyte ud5 (oldest version) and a x5660, is it possible that ECC would actually work? if so it would be great as its cheap as chips on the bay.
Anyone had experience with this?
Hi
Decided to have a final shot today, it didn't matter what I did in the BIOS, as soon as I changed anything from the "Auto" even if I kept the same value but inputted it manually or even increased the CPU Volts up form the default the BIOS would not boot, even when running at standard clocks.
So I figures this must be BIOS / Motherboard related
By chance found a video on YouTube of someone going through their X58 BIOS settings.
I noticed that the BIOS version in the video was "FC" and by chance that was the previous version I used before trying the Xeon and upgrading to the latest "FH" version.
So I downgraded to "FC" and......Bamn ! I can now fiddle with volts and overclock, and it actually posts past the BIOS screeen now!
Update:
Multiplyer seemed fixed at x20, even when I chose x22, but could not get it to boot at 200mhz x20 = 4gz, would not make it in to windows
Found that by enabling Turbo the x22 would then stick and it would run at x22 so currently around 182 x 22 = 4gz and boots into windows and working but need to stress test, VCore at 1.325 and QDI/VTT at 1.335, did put VCore up to 1.35 but would not make it to Windows logon at 4.2 ot 4.1 ghz
Diddy
Decided to have a final shot today, it didn't matter what I did in the BIOS, as soon as I changed anything from the "Auto" even if I kept the same value but inputted it manually or even increased the CPU Volts up form the default the BIOS would not boot, even when running at standard clocks.
So I figures this must be BIOS / Motherboard related
By chance found a video on YouTube of someone going through their X58 BIOS settings.
I noticed that the BIOS version in the video was "FC" and by chance that was the previous version I used before trying the Xeon and upgrading to the latest "FH" version.
So I downgraded to "FC" and......Bamn ! I can now fiddle with volts and overclock, and it actually posts past the BIOS screeen now!
Update:
Multiplyer seemed fixed at x20, even when I chose x22, but could not get it to boot at 200mhz x20 = 4gz, would not make it in to windows
Found that by enabling Turbo the x22 would then stick and it would run at x22 so currently around 182 x 22 = 4gz and boots into windows and working but need to stress test, VCore at 1.325 and QDI/VTT at 1.335, did put VCore up to 1.35 but would not make it to Windows logon at 4.2 ot 4.1 ghz
Diddy
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Managed to bad myself an X5650 from the auction site for £30!
My mobo was setup for 4Ghz on the i7-950, so left all the settings the same. Popped it in, it runs at 2.3Ghz at idle and clocks upto 4.4Ghz. 27 degrees on idle, 73 on IBT.
I'll have to play with some of the settings and try and tune it a little.
Edit: Seems to run at 4.4 single core, or 4.2 on all cores
My mobo was setup for 4Ghz on the i7-950, so left all the settings the same. Popped it in, it runs at 2.3Ghz at idle and clocks upto 4.4Ghz. 27 degrees on idle, 73 on IBT.
I'll have to play with some of the settings and try and tune it a little.
Edit: Seems to run at 4.4 single core, or 4.2 on all cores
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